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Show TWENTY PEOPLE BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED UNDER A COLLAPSED BUILDING BULLETIN. NEW YORK, March 2. Fire Chief Croker stated that he believes from fifteen to twenty men are buried in the ruins. The building, in collapsing:,- crashed through the kitchen and dining-room of Patterson's hotel, on West 47th treet, adjoiningr in the rear. Both rooms were wrecked and a guest and a waiter were buried in the debris. Their injuries are not known. ttoroner Scholer says that eleven men, all probably dead, are buried in the ruins. Great crowds have gathered, and the police reserves from the neighboring stations bare been summoned. BULLETIN. NEW- YORK, March 2. A nine-story building In course of construction at. Forty-sixth street and Sixth avenue collapsed today. Ambulances have been summoued. The entire building? -which was being erected for hotel purposes, pur-poses, is said to have collapsed. A boiler explosion caused the collapse. According to the police five dead and twenty-five injured have already been taken from the ruins. All the dead and injured, as far as known, were workmen work-men employed on the building. . As the salvage corps pulled the remnants rem-nants of the west wall screams were heard from the ruins and it is thought that a number of injured will be found beneath the pldewalk on that side. The Rev. Father McKlnnerty ventured down into the wrecking to give absolution absolu-tion to the pinioned men supposed to be dying there. |